The objective of the Municipal Education Statistics is to know the education level of the population.It is carried out exclusively using administrative information from internal and external sources, without the direct collection of information.Internal statistics sources from the Population and Housing Statistics (EPV) and the Municipal Inhabitants Statistics (EMH) are used as the base.It also uses other external administrative sources, in the educational sphere, of the Administration of the Basque Country and the Central Administration, which provide records of administrative registers relating to level of education and qualifications.

The Population and Housing Census is an exhaustive source of information on the education level of the population; it offers an accurate snapshot allowing, at the same time, an analysis by strata difficult for a survey. This is the case of the population who, without being necessarily students, studied Vocational and Complementary Training. The series of rates of the population with secondary studies by age stratum and sex come from the conjunctural operation Survey on the Population in Relation to Activity (PRA) and constitutes a structural indicator with a high degree of comparability in the European statistics framework.